A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South

by Dianne Swann-Wright

Book Overview

Using the experiences of her own family of freed slaves, the author looks at relations between plantation owners and their slaves after emancipation, how African Americans made a new life as employees and landowners as Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813921376
• ISBN13: 9780813921372
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"